﻿Eyohanche.] scrophulariace^ (Hiern). 417 



iv. 3B, 96, Jiff. 42, D— H ; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 831. //. 

 eocciyiea, L. ex Stnid. Nomencl. Bot. ed. 1, 418 ; Harv. in Hook. 

 I.e., 144, t. 3. — Orohanche species sethiopica, Pluken. Almag. Bot. 

 Mant. 14:2. Orobmiche maurit. fl. purpurea, Petiv. GazopJiyl. i, t. 

 xxxvu.Ji^. 4, 



Coast Region, below 500 ft. : Malmesbury Biv. ; Groene Kloof, Driige ! 

 Cape Div. ; Simons Bay, Wright; Cape Flats, on the roots of Aspalathxis, 

 Thuriberg '. MacOwan, 1947! and in MacOwan .j- Bolus, Herh. Norm., 2381 

 Bolus, 8036 ! Krauss, Brege, Harvey, 38! Uitvlugt, Wolley Dod, 1463! Caledon 

 Div. ; Caledon Baths, ZeyJier, 1314 ! Onrast River, Zeyher, 1510 ! Swellendam 

 Div. ; near Grootvaders Boseh, Zeyher, 1314! Riversdale Div. ; near the Zoete- 

 melks River, Burchell, 6733 ! Mossel Bay Div. ; Attaquas Kloof, QUI ! 

 Queenstown Div. ; Queenstown, Mr?,. Barber ! 



Central Region: Somerset Div.; Somerset East, Boioker, dlO \ GraaflF 

 Reinet Div. ; by water courses at Bloemhof near Graaff Reinet, Bulidge in 

 Herh. Bolus, 479 ! 



Western Region, between 1000 and 4000 ft.: Little Namaqualand ; parasites 

 on bulbs, on elevated sandy flats and hills, BarJdy ! between Pedros Kloof and 

 Lily Fontein, Brdge ! near Port NoUoth, Bolus 1 



_ Excellent ink may be made frona this plant ; the farmers in the Queenstown 

 district call it " Ink-plant" (BowJcer). 



Sometimes the calyx-lobes are connate two and three togetlier for some 

 distance so as to make the calyx sub-bilabiate. The hairs of the pubescence are 

 moniliform, as is the case in other species of the genus. There is in the British 

 Museum a coloured drawing made by Masson at the Cape of Good Hope in 

 1775. 



The Hyolanche sanguinea of Thunherg, Trav. i. 287, the " Aard-roos " of the 

 Cape inhabitants, is Oytinus dioicus, J%iss. 



2. H. glabrata (Hiern) ; a parasitical herb ; stem ascending, terete, 

 4-5 in. high, simple ; leaves scale-like, scattered, imbricate towanls 

 the base of the stem, ovate, obtuse, |-^ in. long, yi in. broad, 

 somewhat fleshy, the lower smaller ; flowers pedicellate and sessile, 

 spicate-capitate ; spike terminal, rather flat on the top, about the 

 size of an infant'rf fist, 2-4 in. long, involucrate at the base with 

 fleshy purple ovate or ovate-oblong obtuse ciliolate scales ; bract 

 oblong-lauceolate, obtuse, ciliate, purple towards the apex, shaggy 

 on the back, If in, long; bracteoles linear-spathulate, obtuse, 

 1 -nerved, flat' | in. long, yellowish towards the base, more or less 

 purplish toward's the apex, shaggy with purple moniliform septate 

 hairs; calyx tubular, 1^ in. long, cleft nearly to the base at the 

 hack, 4-cleft to the middle in front; lobes linear, obtuse, flat 

 5-nerved, thin, equal or subequal, ciliate towards the base, yellowish 

 and glabrous below, purple or purplish and shaggy with moniliform 

 hairs towards the apex; tube yellowish, glabrous ; corolla tubular 

 cylindrical, unilabiate, straight, 2 in. long, purple, sprinkled with 

 thin hyaline septate moniliform or thread-like hairs; tube about 

 Hin. long, about x in. in diam., rather narrower below ; lip on the 

 posterior !side, obtuse, bidentate, about i in. long, with an obtuse 

 tooth-like lobule on each side; stamens glabrous, exserted, inserted 

 at the base of the corolla-tube; filaments compressed; anthers 

 1-celled, oblong, obtuse, dehiscing by an oval apical pore, yellow, 



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